What unfolds defines the campaign - endless, merciless waves of units that seem to know just where to hit you, and at exactly what time. At which point the entire situation goes to shit. To start this is all par for the course - a casual stroll through the streets, knocking off a few GDI soldiers, until you're attacked by a Nod splinter group. Your first task is to start a revolution within downtrodden Rio De Janeiro, and this you'll achieve by capturing radio stations and undermining the GDI presence by destroying their buildings. Aside from the inevitable armies soon to be at your disposal, you're the murderous Messiah's only trusted aide. The Nod campaign kicks off with the smooth-headed maestro of hyperbole striding into an abandoned Nod command centre, resplendent in a delightful terminator hat and eye-patch ensemble. I've barely slept since I played them, as my dreams are plagued with replays of their various tactical injustices. First we need to discuss the fact that for all but the hardest of hardcore C&C players, the campaign missions of Kane's Wrath are ball-kickingly difficult.

I'll delve deeper into this world domination mode, in which armies stage skirmishes on a continental level, later. While it flaunts a fan-pleasing timeline with 13 new Nod missions, it also adds the fantastic Global Conquest mode - world map Risk-style gameplay that you'll recognise from Empire Earth III and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade, but which C&C has taken to new levels of balance and engagement. Though Kane's Wrath is a mite more risky than expected. Namely, new units and a continuation of the storyline with an extended campaign. The Inevitable Rising of the (tiberium) sun is the only thing more reliable than the release of a C&C expansion, and Karie's Wrath gives us the basics we expect.

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